Bayh's hometown excited about VP prospects

[book_worm]

SHIRKIEVILLE, Ind. - Speculation that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is considering Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh as a potential running mate has people excited in Bayh's boyhood hometown.

Many in the small Vigo County community know Bayh and his family and hope that the former two-term governor will be picked for the national ticket.

"Everybody's pretty sure that he's going to get it," said Carolyn Powers, co-owner of the Midway Bar and Grill in the heart of Shirkieville. "It would put the Midway on the map, wouldn't it?"

Bayh's parents had a farm about 10 miles north of Terre Haute when he was born in 1955. The family sold that home a couple years later when Bayh's father, Birch Bayh, entered law school at Indiana University in Bloomington.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/wire/chi-ap-in-bayh-excitedhomet,0,3289950.story

[FrenchieCat]

1. I suggest that they chillax,

and get ready to be disappointed.

[ObamaIL]

3. Seriously, is Anyone Really "Excited" about Bayh? Not he's bad...

But he's kind of a downer next to Obama. He's like the epitome of privileged white guy with last name. But I honestly don't know him well.

[ObamaIL]

2. Well That's One Town, lol

I'm not behind his politics but he might just be able to bring in IN. I still have my doubts about IN though, it's KKK history doesn't give me much confidence.

[ingac70]

4. Bayh...

never got less than 60 percent of the vote in his Senate runs, and was a very popular Gov. of Indiana.

[ObamaIL]

5. Yeah I've heard that, which is why Obama has to really consider him

Maybe I just haven't been exposed to him enough. For me he's like Gephardt, totally enervating. So could just be me.


But your point is well taken.

[high density]

6. Are they going to become PUMAs when he isn't chosen as VP?

[4themind]

7. Bayh??

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